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Contract Details: Whitesell-Green, Inc.*, Pensacola, Fla., is being awarded a $22,579,000 firm-fixed-price contract for the design and construction of a consolidated aircraft maintenance facility at Keesler Air Force Base. The work to be performed provides for all labor, material, transportation, equipment, and supervision for the design and construction work necessary to provide a consolidated aircraft maintenance facility that supports the C 130 mission. The facility will include maintenance squadron, propulsion, aircraft ground equipment, maintenance supply, aircraft part storage, mobility areas, and readiness spares storage. The project also includes parking for 200 personnel and demolition of Hanger 5. Work will be performed in Biloxi, Miss., and is expected to be completed by December 2008. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured as a two-phase design build via the Naval Facilities Engineering Command e-solicitation website with 11 offers received in Phase I, and five selected to proceed to Phase II. Three proposals were received in Phase II. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Southeast, North Charleston, S.C., is the contracting activity (N69450-07-C-0757).